The Harp (Volume 23)

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The Harp is the scholarly journal of Syriac, Oriental, and Ecumenical studies published by the St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI) in Kottayam, India. Contents Editorial Prester John of India The Liturgical Dimension of Syriac Epigraphy The Universality and the Locality in Early Persian Christianity as Reflected in Aphrahat's Demonstrations St. Paul According to Jacob of Serugh The Churches of the Syriac Tradition and Ecumenism St. Thomas in the Syro-Chaldean Breviary Theology of Nature in Ephrem and in Indian Thought The Blessing on Judah: Ephrem and Jewish Exegesis Indian and Christian Mysticism Patristic Collections in the "Syriac Masora" Remembering the Seyfo: Re-reading the Poem by Gallo Shabo An Iconographic Explanation of the Open-air Granite Cross of Valiyapally, Kaduthuruthy The 'Divine Praises' or the Liturgy of the Hours in the Chaldeo - Indian Tradition with Special Reference to Endana the Noon Liturgy Syriac Books (printed) Found in the Metropolitan's Palace, Trichur, South India Some Observations on the Antiochene Exegetical Precepts St. Ephrem's Commentary on Genesis - Some Observations Concerning his Exegetical Method Parallels of Syriac and Jewish Apocalypses of the 7th Century The Iconography of Saint Ephrem Dualistic Heresies and Cults in Syriac Sources and the Construction of the Image of the Heretic Bar-Hebraeus's Use of Bar-Salibi 'Kulala ' (Crowning) in the East Syrian Tradition Interfacing the Cross and the Eucharist: Syriac Perspectives Syriac Echoes on Byzantine Icons - Common Motives in Liturgical Texts and on Sacred Images The Syriac Liturgy of Peter of Callinicus "Aramaic Brothers or Heretics: The image of the East Syrians in the Chronography of Michael the Great (d. 1199)" The Genesis of Ethnicity? The Causes of the Feast, a Literary Genre of the East Syriac Church, in the 6th Century. A Survey with Some Theological Remarks In Memoriam